Puts me to sleep every time

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This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on November 4, 2003). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.

Early fall, 1997.

James, Richard and I had just gotten out of a late showing of that year’s Sci-Fi/Horror film, “Event Horizon“. None of us had known quite what we were in for when we decided to go, aside from the most basic premise of “something creepy happens in space,” but it looked fun, so off we were.

We had a blast. The movie itself, if you haven’t seen it, is either really good or really horrible, depending on how you look at it. As a horror movie, it’s pretty good — as a science-fiction movie, it’s horrendous. That night, though, we just had a lot of fun with the horror movie part, sitting in the dark in a huge theater, jumping at all the cheap thrills and loud noises, and thoroughly enjoying it.

Leaving the theater sometime after midnight, we were so jazzed on adrenaline that we were bouncing off the walls, so we stopped off at the local grocery store for some snacks.

“I like it here,” commented James as we walked down the aisles. “It’s warm…the lights are on…there’s air…. Can we stay?”

We got to the checkout counter, and I started skimming the tabloid headlines as James and Richard paid for their goodies. “Hey guys,” I said, and held up the latest Weekly World News. “Alien’s Last Words!”

James just looked at me and deadpanned, “Ack. Ack ack. Ack ack ack ack. Ack.”

Eventually we headed back to my apartment. Once we got there, James decided that he was still too amped from the movie to have any chance of going to sleep. In order to relax and calm down, he decided the best thing to do would be to watch a nice, calm, relaxing movie.

Like Aliens.

True to form, he was asleep before the movie ended.

7 thoughts on “Puts me to sleep every time”

  1. I hate to be a comment whore, but Event Horizon holds a not-so-special place in my heart; thought I’d share. I had a boyfriend while I was at a college in Virginia in ’98 that always watched the same movies over and over and over. And one of those was Event Horizon. Bad enough that I think it’s just one sick little movie, but he would play it over and over while we were sleeping (he was the only one sleeping, I couldn’t sleep with all that nasty sh** going on in the background). He gets the prize for most annoying boyfriend EVER! Thanks for listening.

  2. Feel free to be a “comment whore” (or, if you go for really long comments, “bl-hogger”, as my friend Kirsten and I say). ;) I leave the comments open, after all — and it’s always good to know someone stops by every so often.

    I have to admit, I can’t really imagine trying to go to sleep to Event Horizon. Though I did manage to fall asleep to Aliens — twice in two days, in fact, which is part of what popped this post into my head.

    One of these days, though, I’m going to rent Event Horizon and single-frame step my way through that transmission just to see how bad it really is…

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